informationclearinghouse.info - 12/29/2008
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By Richard Sale UPI Terrorism Correspondent 06/18/02 " UPI " -- --- In the wake of a suicide bomb attack Tuesday on a crowded Jerusalem city bus that killed 19 people and wounded at least 70 more, the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, took credit for the blast. Israeli officials called it ...
haaretz.com - 12/30/2008
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haaretz.com —
Three days into Operation Cast Lead, Israel is
proposing a diplomatic exit. A ground operation likely looms...
in an effort to increase the pressure on Hamas. At the same time, however, others argue that the air force is close to exhausting its target ...
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ANALYSIS / Hamas is hoping for an IDF ground ...
meganmcardle.theatlantic.com - 12/31/2008
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meganmcardle.theatlantic.com —
Everyone engaged in it is interested in proving
that one side is righter than the other. Since...
no action in the region has occurred without plausible provocation for 4,000 years or so, this requires constantly shifting the metrics by which you ...
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The problem with Israel-Palestine blogging
jewcy.com - 12/31/2008
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jewcy.com —
By Michael Weiss > Commentators in the American
and European press too often succumb to a solipsistic...
way of thinking of the Arab-Israeli conflict, as if only one side had any autonomy or agency. The debate between supporters and critics of Israel ...
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Hamas as a Political Failure
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The Politics of the Gaza Massacre
Antiwar.com Original —
... to destroy and undercut even to the point of providing legal status and covert funding to Hamas. These followers of radical Islamist preachers began as a religious association, formally registered with the Israeli authorities. Hamas was encouraged as a potentially more compliant competitor with the PLO. Another case of blowback, with a vengeance. Having ...
Cole's End Game
Shadow of the Hegemon —
... If the Gaza population doesn't turn on Hamas, and Israeli measures don't destroy the organization (which they helped create and fund back in the late 1980s when they wanted a foil to the secular PLO), then what? They'll just go on half-starving Gaza's children for decades? Malnourished children have diminished IQ and poor impulse control. That would make them ideal suicide bombers. Plus, sooner or later there will start to be effective boycotts of Israel in Europe and elsewhere over these war crimes. The Israeli economy would be vulnerable to such moves. ...
Rationalizing Gaza
Antiwar.com Original —
... , now they push Fatah and go after Hamas. Whichever group is more effective in resisting the occupation is targeted for destruction. The history of Hamas provides more than a few ironies: it was originally sponsored by the Israelis in the late 1970s as a way to undermine the Palestine Liberation Organization and Arafat's personal leadership. Citing several former and current CIA officers, UPI's Richard Sale reported the Israelis provided "direct aid," including funding, to Hamas at its inception. Under the name Al-Mujamma al-Islami, Hamas was registered as a legal ...
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First Read 12/29/2008
From NBC’s Libby Leist In a conference call with reporters this afternoon, Israeli Prime Minister Olmert 's spokesman Mark Regev said that the conflict in Gaza "could get worse before it gets better..." as Israel continues striking Hamas ...
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